Private “spies” from Bernard Squarcini indicted

The former director of internal intelligence is suspected of mobilizing his network to spy on François Ruffin, MP LFI and director “Thank you boss!”, on behalf of LVMH.

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When he realized boss!, award-winning film of a better documentary Caesar in 2017, François Ruffin was under close supervision. On behalf of the LVMH Luxury Group, the former director of internal intelligence, Bernard Squarcini, is suspected of mobilizing his private investigator networks to spy on the current member of France Insouchaise (LFI) and the team Fakir newspaper he directed then. There is the former judge at the Paris Court of Appeal, which became the director of the protection of assets and people of LVMH, Laurent Marcadier. At the end of September, it was indicted in particular for infringing privacy, illegal exercise of private research agent, as revealed by Mediapart. The same is true for the former police officer converted into economic intelligence, Hervé Séveno, and “the specialist” of terrorism issues, Jean-Charles Brisard, says the France-Presse agency.

To carry out these investigations on what it qualifies as “fairly active farm organization”, Mr. Squarcini resorted to the services of the I2F company led by Hervé Séveno, a long-standing knowledge with whom He had collaborated on behalf of Veolia. In 2013, this former police officer, spent by the Financial Brigade, claims to have information about “The Fakir Mouvance” to which he had previously interested on behalf of the Casino Group, one of its main customers. “They targeted you [LVMH], but know that we have infiltrated them,” he said to Mr. Squarcini. The latter answers: “Oh well here, it interests me then …”

François Ruffin’s privacy information

/Media reports.